Monday, December 1, 2014

Sexy Christmas: Christmas Balls

We are going way back in time for this naughty Christmas song entry...back 78 years to 1936

1936... the year the first superhero to wear a skin-tight costume and mask, The Phantom, makes his first appearance in U.S. newspapers....

construction of Hoover Dam is completed...

and Ben Light and his Surf Club Boys sang about hanging Christmas Balls.



Sexy Christmas : I Know What He Wants for Christmas

Today, its Kay Martin "I Know What You Want for Christmas"With lyrics like - "It won't be a surprise, it should be a delight, its the same one you played with last Saturday night" - the suggestiveness is off the charts.
But...is it really what we think it is? Get your mind outta the gutter!




Thursday, November 27, 2014

Sexy Christmas: Stuffin Her Stocking

ROCK SEXY wants to celebrate the holidays. 
The sexy way. 

Because there is NO shortage of suggestive holiday songs. 
see what I mean?


Tonight's entry is Bloodshot Bill's masterpiece "Stuffin' Her Stocking"
(speaks for itself)

Happy Holidays!
See you tomorrow.

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Dear Nobody


On April 1st, 2014, Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose was published. Co-written off of a teenage girl's diary by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, this book is a slimmed down version of a troubled girl's diary, a girl that was lonely, alcoholic, and a girl that died too young. It's sort of Go Ask Alice, but true. Like for real true. I haven't read it yet but I can't wait to. 

Recently, Legs and Gillain appeared on Howie Pyro's podcast Intoxica Radio. It's a really great talk between the three and the music of course is badassery at its best. (Including the brand new Miriam Linna record - WOWIE! Can't wait to get that one and all it's total girl group glory.)

Go ahead and listen to this show. See you in two hours...

So if you listened to that, you are probably really curious about the movie Go Ask Alice. Well, I was at least. This aired on TV years before I was born, I didn't even know it was a movie. I have a mildewed copy of Go Ask Alice  in my basement, but I heard it was a fake halfway through reading it and I gave up and moved on to music and biographies. Anyway, of course the movie is on YouTube in it's entirety, bless their hearts, so here you go. Yes, it's totally worth watching. And isn't that Any Griffith?


Thursday, September 4, 2014

ROCK SEXY #59





Mama-Ka-Toko-Laka-Poo-Poo-Yay - Alex Spearman - L. Bonds
Ooh Poo Pah Doo - Ike and Tina Turner - J. Hill
Gloria - Patti Smith - Morrison/Smith
Sock it to Me - Mitch Ryder - Crewe, Brown

Wild Man - Tamrons - Walters, Pethus
Killer Diller - Kid Congo and the Pink Money Birds
Hardcore Boy - Tweens
The Other Side - Night Beats

You Keep Me Hanging On - Vanilla Fudge - Holland, Dozier, Holland
Your Kiss of Fire - Supremes - Gordy, Fuqua
Rock-n-Roll Girl - The Beat - Collins
I Don't Fit In - The Beat - Collins
Different Kind of Girl - The Beat - Collins, S. Huff
Draggin the Line - Tommy James and the Shondells - James, King
Lightening's Girl - Nancy Sinatra - Hazelwood
Soul Serenade - Willie Mitchell - Ousley, Dixon
Wanna Be Sedated - Ramones 
Go Mental - Ramones
Out of Our Tree - Outta Place -  J. Ormsby, K. Morrill, N. Anderson, R. Gardner

Walking With the Beast - Gun Club - J.L. Pierce
Wish You Well - Mark Langean
Lonely Nights Again - Mick and the Shambles 
Green Plant - Majic Shop
Apophis to the Slaughter - Mark Sultan

Midnight Special - Leadbelly
Going Home - Rolling Stones - Jagger, Richards
Everynight - Last Drive - Human Expression
Livin for the Weekend - Dirtbombs - C. Gilbert, K. Gamble, L. Huff




Thursday, August 14, 2014

Let's Party This Fall

People ask me what I have been up to...I usually say working, because it's totally true. But since I claim to be "Rock and roll DJ" I truly believe that trying going to as many shows as as possible is part of my job, and fall is always great because there are so many bands touring the prime months of September-December. The spring tour time is nice too, but something about the fall air and crispy midwest leaves makes for my idea of perfect rock and roll weather.

Thanks to the Southgate House Revival for bringing a couple doozies to the bluegrass state. 

First up, Tuesday September 23rd 
King Kahn and BBQ - now known as BAD NEWS BOYS, but contractually obligated to stick to KK & BBQ for the duration of this fall tour. I saw them in Nashville last year and am looking forward to seeing them again for sure.

. Photo stolen from their Tumblr

And by "looking forward" I really mean that I can't stress enough how much I love the music they make together, its just so raw and, as Mirima Linna once put it, it's "no bullshit rock and roll." Of course, they had been playing together for many years before becoming known as King Kahn and BBQ.

Here they are in the earliest incarnation, The Spaceshits.

King Kahn and BBQ Show - Fishfight 2004

As much as they rock, they are in fact opening for The Black Lips at that show. I have not seen them live before, despite their audacious and relentless touring schedule. They did actually play in Louisville, at some outdoor festival, and at like 2 in the afternoon, so I am looking forward to catching them after the sun has set and with cheaper bourbon available...much more appropriate.

"Bad Kids" 2007

"Drugs" 2009

Yes, of course they are cute. 
Whatever, not surprising.
Photo stolen from Black Lips Tumblr

Closer to Halloween, the good folks at Burger Records are sending a few rockers our Kentucky way. Once again at the Southgate House Revival, a small slew of bands including The Coathangers and AJ Davila & Terror Amor are playing one hell of a Saturday night show. 


"Don't Touch My Shit" 2014

"Follow Me" 2014

I saw The Coathangers from Atlanta in Memphis last year, opening for Guitar Wolf. It was awesome.
SEE GUITAR WOLF POST HERE

And 3 years later, almost to the date, from when I saw Davila 666 in Lexington, I will see AJ Davila and Terror Amor, featuring a couple members of the now broken up garage punk princes 666, AJ and crew deliver more catchy garage pop riffs to suit any need. 

2014

together PANGEA was one I was unfamiliar with, so I did the YouTube thing and they seem cool too. 

"Offer" 2014


Also part of the Burger Records Caravan of Stars tour is a show in Nashville at Exit/In on November 5th, featuring Natural Child, together PANGEA, Denney and the Jets,  Mozes and the Firstborn and once again AJ Davila and Terror Amor.

We all remember Natural Child. 

"Crack Mountain" 2011


Their newest record really demonstrates their awesomeness in a much greater caliber and easily put out one of the best rock and roll records of the year when they put out DANCIN WITH WOLVES back in February. 



BURGER RECORDS Caravan of Stars tour schedule

Some shows closer to home include one of ROCK SEXY and BOTB's favorite bands out there right now BRONCHO at Zanzabar September 9th, supporting their new record "Just Enough Hip to Be Woman" and JEFF the Brotherhood returning on October 21st to Zanzabar (my ankle still hasn't healed from that night of partying the last time they were in Louisville) along with DIARRHEA PLANET whom I am stoked to see for the first time.

October 4th, power pop super cuties SHERBERT will play the bar I work at now The Cure Lounge, which is totally awesome. I will post more about that show as details are confirmed.

And my friends James and the Ultrasounds from Memphis are supposedly coming back to the Ville, but he hasn't responded to my message so I am not sure when yet.

So yeah, there's my fall.
 It'll come and pass quickly, as each day life gets better and better but also time goes faster and faster. Perhaps you'll join on this rock and roll journey? 
Let's party. 

And don't forget, we are all in this together. 
We are stronger together. 
Let's get together.
 

ROCK SEXY #58





Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio - Ramones
Rock Me Baby - Blue Cheer
Sun Arise - Alice Cooper
Too Much to Dream - Stiv Bators
Come Home Jenny Brown - Ritchie White Orchestra
For the Feel - Bleached 
Can't Get Past the Lips - BRONCHO

Give Me a Woman - The Cramps
Bad Woman - Fallen Angels
Chills and Fever - Allen Wayne
I'll Go Crazy - Artesians
I Don't Care, I Don't Care - James Crawford
Harlem Shuffle - Bob and Earl
Rock Steady - Aretha Franklin

Rip Her to Shreds - Blondie
Girls Like Me - Nikki and the Corvettes
Shout Bama Lama - Detroit Cobras
Down on the Street -The Stooges
Wolf Pack - Kid Thomas

Esa Mena Una Regreso - Davila 666
 Tinnitus - Ausmuteants
I Can Be a Jerk - Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Heavy Days - Jeff the Brotherhood
Lost Boys and Girls Club - Dum Dum Girls
Cannibal Courtship - Dengue Fever
Room 19 - Chain and the Gang

Whole Lotta Lovin - Fats Domino
Little Latin Lupe Lu - Kingsmen
Long Green - Kingsmen
Security - Thane Russel
Wade in the Water - Makeup
Take Me Back - King Kahn and BBQ Show

Nobody's Fault But Mine - Led Zeppelin
Take My Heart - Black Lips
Lights Out Club - Ex-Cult
Kip and Me 
Baby I Love You - Ramones










Sunday, August 10, 2014

ROCK SEXY #57





Rock and Roll Radio - Ramones 
Girls Like Me - Nikki and the Corvettes
Apocalyptic Love - James and the Ultrasounds
Garlic Storm - Hooten Hallers
Body Buzz - Gas Huffer
Carbonated Comet - Man or Astroman
Anxiety - Eddy Current Suppression Ring

Bend Me Shape Me - The Models
Too Much to Dream - Electric Prunes
Fight Fire - Golliwogs
Rock Me Baby - Blue Cheer
Ole Rattler - Long John Hunter
Slash - Long John Hunter
I Don't Care - Long John Hunter

Rock and Roll - Velvet Underground
I Need You - Esquerita
Go Back to Daddy - Doris
Clean Up Woman - Betty Wright
She'll Be Gone - Bettie O'Brien
Imitation - Jackie Delmone
You've Had Your Chance - Wailers

Sound and Vision - David Bowie
Untouchable - Johnny Guitar Watson 
Did Ya Need to Know - Dale Gregory & the Shouters
Game is My Middle Name - Betty Davis
Tiger Man - Rufus Thomas
 Lone Wolf - Felt Letters

Someone's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight - Earl Vance and the Valiants
I Want You So Hard - Eagles of Death Metal 
Hot Love - Nasal Boys
Guess I'm Falling in Love - Velvet Underground
Party Date - Carl Canida and the Flames
Monochrome Girl - Detective

Raining in My Heart - Roosevelt Sykes
Catch You on the Rebound
I Know I'm Losing You - The Faces
Poor Fool - Ike and Tina Turner
I'd Love to Take Orders From You - Mildred Bailey
Big Girls Don't Cry - Edith Massey







ROCK SEXY #56 Underground Lady baby




Wild Watusi
Underground Lady - Kim Fowley
Banging on my Drum - Lou Reed
Living for the City - Dirtbombs
She's on Fire - King Tuff

Die Young Stay Pretty - Blondie
7am - Jacqueline Taieb
Grass is Greener - Ace of Cups
You've Got Good Taste - The Cramps
Slaughter on 10th Avenue - The Ventures

Search and Destroy - Iggy and the Stooges
Evil Hearted Ada - Flaming Groovies
Unknown Blues - Pretty Things
Sapphire - Big Oliver
Slappin' Rods and Leaky Oil - Savoys
Got Your Head on Backwards - The Sonics

WZUM Radio Spot
Camel Walk - Saxons
Freedom of Choice - Devo
Tell Me - Dead Boys
Baby Don't Go - Welders 
Drive - The Coathangers
Look at the Stars - Bobbettes
The Night - Dee Dee Sharpe
I Wanna Love Him So Bad - Jelly Beans
Kicked Around - Ad Libs
Shallow Orbit - Ladybirds
Ebb Tide - Continental Co-ets
Think - The Sonics
Hold It - The Sonics

Girl Can't Help It - Rockin' Ramrods
Mi Siento Azul - Los Vigilantes
The Grunt - Eddie Kirk
Evidence - Patrice Holloway
Yeah Yeah Yeah - Bana Uniao Black 
Dirty Old Man - The Wreck-A-Minded

 


Thursday, July 24, 2014

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine...



Great footage of a Patti Smith 1976 concert in Stockholm and interview before. 
Really, really great, more than worth the 35 minutes of your life.



ROCK SEXY #55




Wizard of Ahs - Count Ferrell
Geronimo - Renegades
Tomcat Mambo - Perez Prado 
Psychotic Reaction - Count Five
Wolf Pack - Kid Thomas

It's On - Broncho
Everynight - Last Drive
Summertime Blues - Blue Cheer
Shakin Street - MC5
Dead Leaves - Sultan Bathery

2333 - AJ Davila & Terror Amor
Leaving Here - The Black Jetts
Mind Body and Soul - King Kahn and BBQ Show
Zippered Up Heart


I woke up today with this song in my head...


And then there is this funny little video.

"Burritos? Hey that reminds me, I'm hungry."



Monday, July 21, 2014

NEW MUSIC ALERT: Fat White Family

As much as I try to keep up with the times, there are a lot of avenues to take when looking for new music, and where there are a lot of avenues to take, there are also a lot to miss. Often I find out about an awesome band only to learn they played in Covington or Nashville or Indianapolis a year before, then I have to wait around until said band decides to trod along middle America once more.

Well, I was able to come across the name Fat White Family in an email from Pleasekillme.com and as it turns out, I do not think they have played anywhere near me yet. In an album review for another new band, FWF was mentioned as the only good band out there right now. I am thankfully not quite that cynical (yet), but the writer's praise of FWF was convincing enough to lead me over to YouTube. And there was this wonderfully shot, terrific sounding video of one of their performances at SXSW from this past March.

A few minutes into this live show footage had me convinced so I listened to everything on their Bandcamp page.
Fat White Family BANDCAMP 



Then there is this song on their limited edition 7inch of the same name on Hate Hate Hate Records that came out this past March. There were only 750 available.


You should seriously have listened to that track. If you didn't go, back and listen.
And the video is fucking weird, and great, if you can handle a little bit of butt.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/may/01/the-fat-white-family-perform-i-wanna-be-in-connan-mockasins-band-touch-the-leather


As always I am excited to hear something new and awesome!
 Please email me at blytheoftheball@gmail.com if you have any band/music info to share with me!

If time was money, I would be a millionaire...






Monday, July 7, 2014

ROCK SEXY #54 with special guest Kelli!





Live in the Rhythm Hive - Makeup
Penetration - Iggy and the Stooges
Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers - Heaven in Stereo
The Seeds - The Men
Rush to Relax - Eddy Current Suppression Ring

Don't Lie - The Mantles
There But for the Grace of God - The Gories
War/Subvert - Zounds
The Other Side - Night Beats
Toe Cutter/Thumb Buster - Thee Oh Sees

Sonic Reducer - Dead Boys
Old Pervert - The Soft Boys
Saturday Night in the City of the Dead - Ultravox
Gary Gilmore's Eyes - Adverts
Lust For Life - Iggy Pop
Love Comes in Spurts - Richard Hell and the Voidoids
Baby Baby - Vibrators
Lurch - Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds
Six Inch Gold Blade - Birthday Party

Take a Heart - The Sorrows
Hardcore Boy - Tweens
Mess Me Around - The Babies

Girls Like Me - Nikki and the Corvettes
Bad Loser - Sands 
Picture Book - Kinks
Sully My Name - The Marked Men
Rumble - The Sonics
Jack in the Box -The Ladybirds
Let it Bleed - Goat

Elphin Orphan - Scene Creamers
Lovers of Today - The Only Ones
The Rover - Led Zeppelin
In My Time of Dying - Led Zeppelin





ROCK SEXY #53 with special guests Mark and Ed!




Rock and Roll Radio - Ramones
Bongo Beatin' Beatnik - Joe Hall and the Corvettes
Killer Diller - Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds
They Live By Night - Makeup

Obsesiano - Davila 666
Shut Up - The Monks
Bored in the City - Tweens

Can't Get Past the Lips -Broncho
Ghost Power - Cords
Adderall - The Coathangers
Keep On Knocking - Death
Heading for Texas Border Line - Flaming Groovies

Hang a Picture - Thee Oh Sees
My Surfing Lucifer - Crocidiles
Giggy Smile - Faust
Bored - Destroy All Monsters - Asheton, Niagara
Jesus Was My Only Friend - Gas Huffer
Send Me  a Postcard - Shocking Blue

Knights of Baskerville - Thee Headcoats
Up in the Sun - Meatpuppets
Don't Sweat It - Ween
Push to Eagle Stomach - Man Man
Spider Cider - Man Man
Earth Blues - Thee Hypnotics
Kill Your Idols - Sonic Youth
And the Cradle Will Rock - Van Halen

Goat Lord - Goat
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Alter Ego - Tame Impala
Some Velvet Morning - Lee and Nancy
Sun Structures - Temples
I'm a Baby - Acid Baby Jesus
Falling in Love - Buzzcocks
Do it Again - Steely Dan
Homecoming Queen - Julie Brown
Everything She Wants - WHAM!

Love Buzz - Shocking Blue
Baby I Love You - Ramones -





ROCK AND ROLL BOOK CLUB: Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock 'n' Roll Group

Ian Svenonius is one of my favorite musicians. Over the years, I always have enjoyed his many incarnations...Nation of Ulysses, the Makeup, Weird War, Scene Creamers, Chain and the Gang, Felt Letters, and more that I am either forgetting or don't even know about.


I was first introduced to the Makeup from the 1999 record Save Yourself. 



He also is also involved in other projects.


Another one of those projects is writing books. In 2006, he published The Psychic Soviet,  a collection of essays. I have not gotten around to reading that one yet. In 2013, he published Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock and Roll Group and the title alone made me  purchase it immediately.




As luck would have it, shortly after, Mr. Sevenonius went on a small tour, in which he talked about his new book, and then would later perform at a nighttime venue in the same city.

I was able to catch him in Lexington.


He signed my book.


I went back to Louisville after the book reading so that I could do my show ROCK SEXY, but the encounter made me think of my encounter with him in Louisville several years before. 


In 2009, he performed in Louisville at Skull Alley with his band Chain and the Gang. They were cool. I had not yet heard of this project and didn't realize it was Ian Svenonius and when I overheard one of my friends saying "the guy from the Makeup" and I interjected-"You mean Ian Svenonuis is here?" After the show, I talked to him and me and a few of my friends were trying to get him to come party at my house. He never did, but he did call us to let me know that they were leaving town and he couldn't come hang out. My boyfriend at the time made me delete Ian's phone number out of my contacts list after that.

 Anyway, as far as the book goes, it's an account of a seance Ian, a medium and friends performed, in which they communicate with rock and roll performers-dead and alive-through various means, including using wet spaghetti to spell out letters on a wall. Some of the spirits did use their voice, and at his book talk, he played those voices he recorded on one of those this little old school hand held cassette tape players. It just sounded like fuzz to the normal human ear but the medium was able to decipher the advice and philosophies being shared by the spirits. Which lead to the second portion of the book, an actual manual on starting a rock and roll group, from the mouths of those who have been in rock and roll groups, transcribed by the medium and Ian and the other participants in the seance. Where else could you get better advice?

I highly recommend this book, whether or not you are starting a rock and roll group because if you are not planning on starting a rock and roll group, this book will not change your mind, and if you are already in a rock and roll group or in the stages of planning one, this book offers some things to think about as you attempt to conquer the music industry. Of course, as Ian Svenonius puts it, this book is an "indispensable guide" for anyone trying to create a rock and roll group.

Stay tuned for the next Rock and Roll Book Club entry...Sweet Soul Music by Peter Guralnick.

HIGHLANDS TAP ROOM - Every 2nd and 4th Friday


I made a new flyer for my twice a month DJ night at the Highlands Tap Room in Louisville, KY.
 I think I found my new favorite hobby. If you are looking to unload old magazines, let me know.

Flashback to ARTxFM and ROCK SEXY's Birthday Party

This past April I celebrated the one year anniversary of my internet radio show ROCK SEXY. The radio station it is on ARTxFM.com also reached the landmark of broadcasting a live stream 24/7 for one year, as we await our FM license.
( I can't wait to help plan a party for when we land our FM license!)


 I brought my camera and took a few pictures early in the night. 






Fellow ARTxFM DJs (from left to right) Sean, Kara, Michael, and Sharon (el Presidente)



My friends Kelli and Jaxon (host of PARTY PANTS USA) played some records with me.






 








Surprisingly this is all the equipment you need to broadcast live over the internet.


 

Good times had were had by all.



Thursday, May 22, 2014

ROCK SEXY #52 - One Year Anniversary Show




The Joker - Bob Bunny
Bongo Beatin' Beatnik - Joe Hall and the Corvettes
Love You So - King Kahn and BBQ Show
Thunder - Runaways
Non Stop Girls - Radio Birdman

Rush to Relax - Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Salvajes - AJ Davila
It's On - Broncho
Killer Diller - Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds
Head Held High - Velvet Underground - Reed
Uncontrollable Urge - Devo - Mark Mothersbaugh
Baby Please Don't Go - Amboy Dukes - J Williams
Great Grandfather - Billy Childish - E McDaniel
Tobacco Road - Blues Magoos

A Fool In Love - Ike and Tina Turner

SARAH SWAIN SHOW CLIP

Ebb Tide - Continental Coets
Thunderbolt - Tommy James and the Shondells
Rimbaud Eyes - Dum Dum Girls
Toasted - Heavy Cream

BIG MAMA FREAK SHOW CLIP

Don't Need You - The Nubs
Broken By the Way - Phantom Family Halo
Better all the Time - Scene Creamers
Down in Mexico - The Coasters
Smokey Joe's Cafe - Coasters
I Don't Mind - The Who - J. Brown
Be My Lover - Alice Cooper 
Do You Love Me - The Sonics 

JAXON SWAIN SHOW CLIP